Studio Channel Islands Exhition ‘Emergence’

Studio Channel Islands is excited to present an exhibition of works by Maria Laura Hendrix, the inaugural recipient of the Roxie Ray Emerging Artist fund. Hendrix has been a teaching and exhibiting artist since 2010, she graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a Master of Fine Art in the summer of 2020 and was awarded a workspace at Studio Channel Islands. Her work links the themes of labor value and privilege to narrate her history. She is inspired by the landscape and the people who work within it, and in her recent exhibition Hasta La Raiz/To the Roots her chose of subject explored the contrast between the perceived value of the painter’s hand and the laborer’s hand.

Photo Credit: Maria Laura Hendrix, Clock in, 2020